What international flights did TWA operate on September 11th, 2001? I seem to recall news stories of TWA jets being diverted in Canada and elsewhere. I do not recall when TWA international operations ended though.

Quoting washingtonian (Reply 2):
I guess a related question as well. What flights did AA have at JFK then besides LHR? And what TWA flights did they incorporate? I believe FCO & CDG but I might be mistaken

TWA sold the LHR routes to AA long before then in 1991. The last TWA JFK flights were to Israel, Cairo and CDG, everyelse had been terminated by then.

Yes it was sad how TWA ended up. They had struggled for years prior to their final demise in 2001.

They sold their LHR routes to AA in the early 90's, I think about the same time as Pan Am sold theirs to UA. TWA sold their LHR slots to AA desperate to claw in revenue, but of course, in the long term you have just simply sold away your market share and therefore market strength.

They did live on through the 90's, albeit on a knife edge.

The sad loss of flight 800 came in their last 5 years and the 9/11 terrorist attacks came about 8 weeks before the end, so yes it was all a very sad end at TWA.

I guess Pan Am also came to a similarly sad end, also with the destruction of flight 103 over Lockerbie in their last 3 years.

The modern day world of aviation owes so much to these two great pioneers.

Not all of T5 was international though IIRC, one half of the terminal had the gates with the glass partition for FIS arrivals (one of the concourses connected by the famous tubes, the one of the left when looking at the terminal from the front). These were gate numbers in the 20's. The other concourse was domestic and I don't believe had the capability for FIS. These gates were numbered in the 30's & 40's.

Quoting chepos (Reply 17):I might be confusing things but I recall TWA sending a 757 to LIS, I think this was the case for BCN as well (towards the end of the route).

You are correct. There was also a routing, sometime between 1997 (when I began collecting their timetables) and the end when the route ran JFK-LIS-BCN 757. Perhaps the tag-on was during the low season.

When did TWA get rid of FCO? I remember at some point in the late 90's they were running two daily over the summer. I also remember hearing a rumor that they were considering starting service to Beirut, I think.

Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 20):Actually, they built up virtually nothing from TWA at JFK. They folded TW in after 9/11 almost overnight. The second CDG stayed and MCO stayed initially. Everything else was pretty much gone.

Not even the TWA flight to CDG stayed. AA already had 2x daily JFK-CDG before they took over TWA. The TWA flight was a third one and was ended straight away after 9/11.

I think the only non-overlapping ex-TWA routes at JFK that AA has kept are CUN and STL, although they have since re-started JFK-MCO after dropping it the first time.

Quoting jfklganyc (Reply 20):It was years later that AA started to build up it's European destinations from JFK.

Yes. But there was a huge downturn following 9/11 so it is understandable. Nonetheless, AA has in the past decade built up quite a trans-Atlantc operation:LHR, CDG, BRU, ZRH, FCO, MAN, MAD, BCN, MXP...TW served a lot of these (FCO, MAD, BCN, etc) until close to its end.